Yet Another K'nex Gun (YAKG)

Step 15 Wrapup / Troubleshooting

I hope you have enjoyed building the YAKG. Have fun and be safe. Don't torment your pets or siblings with this.

With enough rubber bands, it can penetrate paper easily with blunt rods. Sharpened rods are even more dangerous.

Troubleshooting / Maintenance

• Be sure to check the area around the breech for loose rods, especially if you didn't do Option #3: Recoil Dampening.
• It is fairly safe to fire a few times without any ammo, but repeated "firing on empty" could damage the red connector on the pusher, and break the magazine.
• If the rods come about halfway out of the barrel and stop, they are getting caught on the other rods. You must be using very weak rubber bands. Get some stronger ones.
• If the firing pin flies off, your rubber bands are too strong. Consider weaker rubber bands, or search Instructables for a stronger firing pin. You can also add more tape on Option #2: Reinforced Firing Pin
• If your rubber bands wear quickly, make sure they are on the blue rollers, under the first white rod, and threaded onto the firing pin correctly. Refer to step 10 for rubber band loading information.

Happy shooting!

Comments

[mweatherl]

This is one of the few K'nex guns I have made off of this awesome web site, and by far this one is the BEST!!!! Thanks for posting all of the instructions clearly!!!! Some guns i see only show a picture of a gun with no instructions, and i am not very good at following that!!!!
Thanks again, please post more!!!
Micah